The Archive · 1941

Lisbon; Jan. 9

Nineteon crew members of the British ship Shakespeare were killed when the vessel was torpedoed off Sal Island, said a despatch yesterday to the Diaro Noticias here from St. Vicente in the Cape Verde Islands. An Italian submarine torpedoed the vessel, the despatch said. The re-waining 23 crew members of the Shakespeare landed on Sal Island, it was said—United Press, come have revealed themselves to be Greater than those which could have been foreseen, popular sentiment is unanimous in demanding that, nécessary and suliclent preparation be made in order to destroy these obstacles.

"The Tialian people are not beaten. They know the development in Libya and Albania is nothing more than a mere episode. If the Greeks do not succeed "in. ousting us—and we do not think they will succced—before spring, they will be unable to escape their destiny which is already sealed." United Press.

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